Regularly sending the same driver to the same shipper reduces the dreaded dwell time for freight loading and unloading, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher says.
“The amount of dwell that we expect a driver to experience at a facility drops almost exponentially with repeated visits to that facility,” David Correll, a lecturer and research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, said Wednesday during a keynote at FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
“The...